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Sprawling narratives of relapse and recovery

I have spent nearly two weeks inside Wild, Cheryl Strayed’s sprawling memoir of hiking the Pacific Coast Trail in California and Oregon. She went alone, though along the way met and befriended several other hikers and passersby. The trail was … Continue reading

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Wild sugar

The buzz about Cheryl Strayed’s just-out memoir, Wild, is well-deserved and, well, true. Perhaps best known as Sugar from The Rumpus, that once-but-no-longer anonymous advice-giver (taking over when Steve Almond, the original Sugar, abdicated) read from her memoir earlier this week … Continue reading

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